I see Paula is back to de-hydrating herself, wearing a drysuit. and another board, how many do you want, hahaha (good choice, my next board is going to be a team) Geoff, glad to see the knee is healing fine, so how did you like wakesurfing??

Yeah, How do you boys and girls like that 80's style SPRING suit!! I know you like Kristian, fits in with your Euro ways, haha. Your missing out on all of it though man, get your ass over here for summer. Thanks for the pics bill they're awsome, and for the rides.

Brad, those were taken with a 70-200mm f4L lens, definitely an upgrade. I've also used a low-cost 70-300 f5.6 lens and it took some really good pics as well, and you can pick one of those up for about $200.

Dude, Kristian, i am sporting the yellow on the knee brace, and i'll just pick up one of the new hot pink premeir's, and keep the neon green wetsuit, so then i'll be set. Hey bill do you think you can email me your choice pics from yesterday, thanks a lot again.

Amazing!! Yeah, Geoff was giving me crap today about the direction of my hand in the first picture. I was going for the MEAT there!!! Or at least trying to anyway. I'm riding an 04 LF Team now. I can't help it Randy, I gotta try out new boards every so oftenThanks again Bill, you're the BEST!

In case people didn't notice Paula is performing a new trick in the top picture. It's actually an underhanded wave to the camera, and I believe that since she's the first to do it on film she gets to name that trick.

Tim, I shoot in Manual mode. I shoot at f4 at 1/1500 or 1/2000 if possible, so I use manual mode with single point (center) autofocus. Once I focus on the rider then I switch the lens to manual focus.

David, I just hand-hold the camera. I sit in the back on the boat since that's the most stable place and it helps if the water is calm. It just takes practice to follow the rider smoothly and hit the shutter at the right time. Using a high shutter speed also makes a difference because you won't get an camera shake.

Arun, do you do any sharpening of your pics in photoshop? I noticed that it makes a huge difference. I don't over do it, but it makes the images much more crisp.

Jim my trailer was covered in the crap when we pulled it out. I posted a pic in the thread that Steve started warning about it.

Hey now Joe, Me and Paula are sittin here in the shop reading all of these comments about me and my neon 80's wetsuit, and i think i look GOOD! So maybe when you get back to cali i'll let you borrow it so you can get as many girls as i do in it!

Kyle, that's the difference between SoCal and other places where you aren't used to wearing a wetsuit. If you were to paddle out in San Diego wearing boardshorts over a wetsuit the other surfers would laugh and probably kick your ass for being a poser.

And lots more pics from today, including some wakesurfing pics of Evan who is another wakesurfing convert - picked it up really quickly since he's a surfer, and had a blast. Todd also made a guest appearance at San V today after his class at SDSU was cancelled.

Randy, Todd was riding my board. Didn't like it much but he still managed to go big. I've never seen my board do so many tricks - hopefully now I'll be able to do them now that the board has learned how

We need to get you out there to shoot some pics, and I want to shoot some MX pics too.

Bill what are you doing Sunday. I am going to Amago out by Sengme Oaks water park and riding. Blabelmooch is out there today and if he likes it I am trying to talk him into going on Sunday also.There have been some really fast guys there lately so i'm sure you could get some really good shots

Well since my wakesurfing has become an awkward discussion about how I look on the internet i thought i would give you all a funny pose to laugh about, i am sure you all know which pic i am talking about. But i do have to give thanks to paula for her concern over the matter and weather the pics give me "justice" or not. But the rest of you, go ahead, laugh it up! I am here to entertain.......... And BRING BACK THE EIGHTIES BABY!!!!

Yeah, but I've only managed to land a few of those. Last summer on our houseboat trip I thought I had finally mastered them, I was riding everyday, two to three sets a day, landing most of them and now....well, I keep trying

Randy the track was fun. A bit over my head but I think once I get used to riding the harpack again I will get better. I was a kook out there especially in the beginning. But I was definitely a lot faster towards the end of the day. I took a couple of picks of the guy that runs the track. Can you say whip? It felt good to get out there. Don't think Sunday is going to happen but you never know.

Nice pix! How's the water re: fire. I think it was you last month indicating there was black scum floating in the water and would leave a nasty film on the hull? Your pix reflect nice water - looks d____ cold though!!